Top 10 de­mog­ra­phy facts

500,000,000. According to the 2016 estimate, the EU population is 510,056,011

Nigeria. 150 million people live in Nigeria and that number is quickly rising. Every fifth African lives in Nigeria.

2,6-5%. There are 2.1 to 4 million Muslims in Germany. A large discrepancy between the above data results from the fact that, as research has shown, even half of the 4.2 million people from the Muslim world are non-believers. It is certain, however, that 1.1 million of them have German citizenship. (The photo shows the Şehitlik Mosque in Berlin)

Malta. List of European countries by population density: Monaco (16 500 people / km²), Malta (1230), Vatican City (1190), the Netherlands (465) and San Marino (435).

Mongolia. The average population density in Mongolia is 1.7 persons / km². If Greenland was a sovereign state (it belongs to Denmark) it would have a score of 0.026 / km².

New South Wales is the oldest and most populous state of Australia with a population of just under 8 million.

Australia. Apart from Norway (13 persons / km2), the differences between the remaining three are minimal: Australia 3 people / km2; Iceland 3.1; Canada 3.4

Poland. Both California and Poland have a population of 38M. Of these two, Poland is more densely populated.

Hispaniola is the second-largest island in the Caribbean (after Cuba). Its total population of 20M is shared almost equally between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The population of Hispaniola is about twice as large as the population of Cuba (11M).

Indonesia has 237 million inhabitants. This is more than Brazil (201M), Pakistan (184M), Nigeria (173M), Bangladesh (152M), Russia (143M) and Japan (127M)